The Davinci Code

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Why? The Da Vinci Code phenomenon is no more an artifact of popular culture and gullibility than the Bible. How is it so different for one writer to take a bunch of fiction and mix in a little fact and sell it to the credulous masses than for a group of religious prelates to do it? In many ways, making an anthology of a bunch of unproven stories, leaving some out and changing others, then presenting the result to the popular culture as "the word of God" and therefore the absolute truth is very little different than what Dan Brown did. And both Dan Brown and the church got rich doing it, at the expense of the gullible, believe-anything-they're-told, unwashed and unthinking masses.

I find the modern result rather amusing. Especially when I see religious believers, especially priests and bishops and such, on TV denouncing the Da Vinci Code as badly written fiction and unproven conjecture made to sell to the masses because it directly contradicts another badly written work of fiction and unproven conjecture made to sell to the masses. And they do it with straight faces, apparently completely unaware of the irony.